3. Apparently only White House staff has to resign over abuse accusations. Anyone can still be president! (The American dream!)

4. GOP new plan to keep power is to just stop having elections to fill vacant seats

5. Kansas found six teenagers but only one woman to run for governor

6. You know your administration’s shit when they’re losing to North Korea at diplomacy

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6. Sometimes you just need a dead goose falling from the heavens to teach you that hunting is really freaking stupid

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January 28, 2018 @
8:48 pm

1. The government is now open, so it’s time to re-record the voicemail at the White House comment line!

2. Enjoy Tuesday’s SOTU address with a side Watergate

3. When will the world’s richest people open their arms to Trump? Apparently not at Davos.

4. As always, the best way to insure having a sexual predator on your payroll is to employ a “faith adviser”

5. Claire McCaskill looks to continue her run of being the luckiest Senate candidate in America

6. The Guggenheim sends the president their piece de resistance: a golden toilet called “America”

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December 3, 2017 @
8:57 pm

2. GOP Tax Reform: It’s as narcissistic and self-absorbed as Donald Trump himself

3. Set your watches: the #TrumpRussia countdown to zero begins NOW

4. Sexual Assault allegations...ahem, sorry, dumb idiot men who can’t keep it in their pants...continue to ruin the things we once loved

5. North Korea. Yup.

6. Take a mental vacation in the alternate reality of FoxNews.com

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November 12, 2017 @
11:03 pm

1. You know shit is bad when local election results in Virginia can make California progressives this happy

2. Roy Moore is a pederast. Because, of course.

3. Trump and Putin don’t know what they know about what they don’t know about Russia’s election hacking

4. McConnell to America: I can’t promise this tax cut is for you

5. Shocking update: there are issues with our background check system for guns

6. Carla Nordstrom joins us on the podcast to report on upstate New York's electoral scene

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6. Trump delighted by trick-or-treating visit from un-fat children with terrible media parents

*Happy Halloween! Tweet us your best political costume pics at @braintrustlive!*

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October 22, 2017 @
10:12 pm

1. Alexander-Murray healthcare bill is the will they/wont they breakout hit of the congressional season

2. There is a chance you understand Trump’s tax reform proposal better than he does

3. Trump is one person who doesn’t know what Sgt. Johnson signed up since he never signed up for it himself

4. John Kelly hates that Rep. Wilson is hiding all of her secrets under her elaborate hats

5. DNC is either fully funded and ready for action, or broke and confused. As usual, they can’t decide on a message.

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5. Twitter has now done more to counteract Russian electoral interference than the White House

6. A new break in the case for the age-old question: How many degrees of separation between Kevin Bacon and North Korea?

Plus, the loverly Ritza Bloom (@ritzacalixte), joins us in the studio!

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August 31, 2017 @
3:30 pm

When we promise you we’ll post something, you can count on us to post it…weeks later! That’s right, we’re putting up a supercut of the audio from our wild weekend at Politicon! Check out some clips from the awesome panels and get our thoughts on Ann Coulter’s sanity, our unending love for the queen of 2017 Symone Sanders, and the bathroom habits of Trump supporters. It’s all here, so enjoy!